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DATE: SUNDAY, April 29, 1990                   TAG: 9004300451
SECTION: THUNDER IN THE COALFIELDS                    PAGE: 9   EDITION: METRO 
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#8 PHOTOS BY DON PETERSEN.

In the strike's early days, relations between union miners and state troopers were tense as they faced off on the picket lines, such as at the Moss 3 preparation plant (top). In time, though, the mood relaxed. By late May, troopers L.W. Blair (bottom, at left) and D.B. Hale (at right) were joking with strikers Charlie Taylor and Joe Harvey on the picket line at Moss 3. B&W. 


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